Proverbs 25:27
As it is not good for a man to eat much honey, so he that is a searcher of majesty, shall be overwhelmed by glory.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 25:2It is the glory of God to conceal the word, and the glory of kings to search out the speech.
Proverbs 27:2Let another praise thee, and not thy own mouth: a stranger, and not thy own lips.
2 Corinthians 12:1If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed): but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Philippians 2:3Let nothing be done through contention, neither by vain glory: but in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 25:27
26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. It is here represented as a very lamentable thing, and a public grievance, and of ill consequence to many, like the troubling of a fountain and the corrupting of a spring, for the righteous to fall down before the wicked, that is, 1. For the righteous to fall into sin in the sight of the wicked—for them to do any thing unbecoming their profession, which is told in Gath, and published in the streets of Ashkelon, and… Read the whole commentary →